Rocking-chair fan.



PATENTBD AUG. 9, 1904.

B. F. GILMER. ROGKING CHAIR FAN.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.18, 1908.

N0 MODEL.'

wl l G n 1 DQSSGS W by UNITED STATES Patented August 9, 1904.

BENJAMIN F. GILMER, OF DENISON, TEXAS.

ROCKING-CHAIR FANIl SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.766,822, dated August 9, 1904. v

Application iiled December 18, 1903- Serial No. 185,747.` (No model) Towhom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. GILMER, a citizen of the United States,lresiding at Denison, in the county of Grayson and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Rocking-Chair Fan, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to attachments to rocking-chairs whereby a fanmay be caused to vibrate by the motion of the chair, and has for itsobject to simplify and improve the construction and provide meanswhereby the improved device may be detachably connected to any form ofrocking-chair or similar structure and without injury to the chair;andthe invention consists in certain novel features of construction, ashereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which correspondingparts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a sideview of a rocking-chair with the improved attachment applied. Fig. 2 isa front view of the device detached. Y

The improved device may be attached to any of the various forms ofrocking-chairs, and consists of a base or supporting member 10, clamped,as at 11, to the rocking-chair 12, preferably near its forward part, andhaving a guide 13 extending laterally therefrom, as shown. Supportedslidably in the guide is a standard 14, resting by its lower end at 15upon the floor 16 and provided at its upper end with a yoke 17 18. inthe yoke is a shaft 19, carrying a fan of any approved form, butpreferably composed of spaced blades or wings 20, as shown. Connected byone end to the standard 14 is a retracting-spring 21, and leading fromthe other end of the spring is a cord or fiexible wire 22, which iswound several times around the shaft 19 and connected at its other endin this instance to an eye 10X, carried by the supporting member 10. Thelower end 15 of the standard 14 will be provided with means, such as asoft-rubber or similar shoe or a spur, to cause it to adhere to thefloor with sufficient firmness to prevent slipping when the chair isrocked. By this simple arrangement it will be obvious that when thechair 12 Mounted for rotation' is rocked forward and backward the guide13 will move upwardly and downwardly upon the standard 14 and cause thelatter to vibrate to and fro upon its lower end as a center, while atthe same time the iiexible member 22 will be carried downward with theforward portion of the chair at the forward movement, and thus rotatethe shaft and correspondingly rotate the fan and at the same timeincidentally expand the spring 21, and at the return stroke the reactionof the spring in taking up thc slack of the flexible member will rotatethe fan in the opposite direction, as will be obvions. Thus the fan willbe rotated and moved bodily forward and backward with the motion of thechair.

The members 10 and 14 will preferably be of wood of the same quality andfinish as the frame of the chair to correspond therewith, and the guide13 may be merely a screw-eye inserted into the member 10, while theshaft 19 and fan-arms may be of metal plated or otherwise ornamented andthe-fan-blades of cloth stretched over frames attachedto the fan-arms,as shown, whereby strength and lightness will be combined.

The fan-blades and other parts may be ornamented in any desired fancifulmanner.

It will be noted that a very simple, cheaply-` constructed, and easilyapplied and operated device is produced which may be readily applied toany style or form of rocking-chair and that the parts may be modified inminor particulars without departing from the principle ofthe inventionor sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is-- 1. Thecombination with a rocking-chair having a lateral guide, of a fanattachment comprising a standard slidably supported in said guide andresting upon the floor, a shaft mounted for rotation upon said standardand carrying a fan, a retractive spring, and a ilexible member connectedat its ends to said spring' and to a iiXed part of the chair` andintermediately wound around said shaft, whereby the rocking motion ofsaid chair will cause said fan-shaft and fan to be rotated.

2. The combination with a rocking-chair, of

a fan attachment therefor comprising an arm for detachable connection tothe ohair and having a lateral guide, a standard Slidably supported bysaid guide and resting upon the Hoor, a shaft mounted for rotation inthe upper end of the standard and earryinga fan, and a flexible memberconnected at one end to a fixed part of the chair, and at its other endto a retraotive spring Wound around said shaft, whereby the I O rockingmotion of said chair Will cause s aid fanshaft and fan to be rotated.

3. The combination with a rocking-chair having a lateral guide, of a fanattachment comprising a standard slidably supported in

